Bobw
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2005
- Location
- Hatch, NM Chile capital of the WORLD
So this morning I get to the shop and there is one of my 2 trees laying across the driveway to get to the parking lot...
Thankfully my cleaning guy/handyman got there 2 minutes before me... (He was picking up my cans and a few buckets of useless aluminum, scraps them and puts the money in his grand daughters college account).. He helped me pull the tree enough that I could get into the parking lot.. It was a tough pull.. I have new tires, and they aren't so new anymore, they actually look like they've been used.. I think that is the first time I've had that truck in a 4 wheel drift, granted it would have been a lot more fun at more than 100ipm, but a 4 wheel drift none the less...
So I call up my outdoor weed specialist that cares of the yard around the shop, and helps inside when he can..(He's a head trauma, 60yo, stole a lettuce truck about 40 years ago, chased by the cops, and hit a pecan tree and ended up with the engine block of the lettuce truck on his chest).
He's out of minutes on his phone. so I sit down for a bit and have a Diet Dr. Pepper before I go to find Eddy (he lives in the neighborhood across the street).. I didn't have a gas can here at the shop or my snips, and I know he has a gas can with 2 stroke mix and some nice snips.. So I'm enjoying my Dr. Pepper, and he knocks on the door.
"WTF happened" as my dogs are jumping on him and licking him.. They like Eddy, they think he's cool (somebody has to)..
So we head to his house, grab his gas, and his snips, make a detour to the Pic Qwik and grab some beer (just in case
)..
Eddy starts trimming off the little branches with his nice snips and I head inside to fire up my POS Poulan.. Top her up with gas, tighten the chain, and check the bar oil.. Its empty and I have no bar oil.. Hmm.. F'it.. If people can use bar oil on their mills, I can use waylube on my bar... I think??? So here is the question, because you hvae to have a question!!.. Did I do any damage to my POS chainsaw by using waylube instead of bar oil???
That should be the end of the post.. But I'll tell the end of the story... Its not all that exciting.
I didn't mind using the waylube since the local oil place is dumping chevron and blowing out their waylube for $35 a bucket. I've bought 7 of them so far.. I have to be down that way in a few weeks, and if they have any left, I'll buy another 3 buckets for $115 even... Taxes and everything.
Chainsaw fires up real nice.. Go out, cut a bunch of stuff, and shut it off.... Clear a bunch of stuff, play a game on my phone for a few, and the damn chainsaw won't fire up.. Spark, fuel, won't run, even on starting fluid.. I call my cleaning guy, since he's the only one that has really used it the past few years and he said, "Yeah, she's a bitch, fires and runs, does great, won't start again, let it sit for a day, fires right up"..
Shit.. So Eddy's friend is out there yacking at Eddy... And helping him a little, he's older, probably in his 70's... Doesn't have great english, nice guy, recently lost his wife... And he offers to go up the street and get another one of their friends, who actually burns fire wood (and there isn't a lot of free wood in southern New Mexico). and has a chainsaw...
So now we have a 60 year old head trauma.. A 70 year old retired guy that isn't fluent in english and an 80 something year old that understands enough english, but won't speak it. And a chainsaw with a dull chain that runs...
GOOD TIMES!!! We were having fun, it was a holiday, so F'it.
I know enough about chainsaws and trees that you cut from the side that is going to spread.. Apparently, at that point, I was the only person in Hatch that knew that... I actually went inside and got my car jack, and we had to use it more than once..
I won't mention the time where the saw was stuck, and they cut the only leg of the tree that was keeping it from falling over sideways, or the fact that I was in the middle of the mess, pushing to try and get the saw out, and once it came out, they kept cutting, and the whole tree rolled and I tweaked the shit out of my knee.. It didn't feel good, it feels OK now, but I'm a little scared of what its going to feel like in the morning..
And then Pauly.. Pauly lives up the street and occasionally at his Mother's house down the street.. (Hatch is SMALL, 1700 people, everybody knows EVERYBODY).. Pauly pulls up.. Pauly cuts trees for a living, Pauly doesn't work cheap which is why I didn't go and find him at first, but I've helped him out a few times recently..
Pauly sees the tree and zips his truck around in a second.. And says.. Need some help? And I say as long as it doesn't cost me much.. And he says don't worry about it, I'll tear this thing apart in no-time.. So he grabs the POS that actually ran and starts cutting, for about 30 seconds.. And then goes to his truck, which really wasn't a truck. It was POS Mitsubishi SUV, with aluminum riveted to the side, and pulls out a really nice chainsaw.. After he crawled through the inside to open the hatch.
A Stihl. Somewhere between a 32 and a 36 inch bar, Big F'r... One pull.. **Vroom**.. He busted that tree up like he had a light saber.. It was beautiful.. Nice sharp chain, and he KNEW which way things were going to fall, and he only got stuck up once, and it didn't require a car jack to fix..
Pauly left, and we loaded it all up and headed up the road to dump it all off. Eddy's friends truck was full, and my truck was damn near close to the bump stops..
Crisis averted, and it was a holiday, so who cares that I wasted the day.. This is all I have left to deal with, and its not light.. The trash truck can get in to grab the dumpster tomorrow and mail lady can get to the mail box.. F'it.. Its Beer:30...
Thankfully my cleaning guy/handyman got there 2 minutes before me... (He was picking up my cans and a few buckets of useless aluminum, scraps them and puts the money in his grand daughters college account).. He helped me pull the tree enough that I could get into the parking lot.. It was a tough pull.. I have new tires, and they aren't so new anymore, they actually look like they've been used.. I think that is the first time I've had that truck in a 4 wheel drift, granted it would have been a lot more fun at more than 100ipm, but a 4 wheel drift none the less...
So I call up my outdoor weed specialist that cares of the yard around the shop, and helps inside when he can..(He's a head trauma, 60yo, stole a lettuce truck about 40 years ago, chased by the cops, and hit a pecan tree and ended up with the engine block of the lettuce truck on his chest).
He's out of minutes on his phone. so I sit down for a bit and have a Diet Dr. Pepper before I go to find Eddy (he lives in the neighborhood across the street).. I didn't have a gas can here at the shop or my snips, and I know he has a gas can with 2 stroke mix and some nice snips.. So I'm enjoying my Dr. Pepper, and he knocks on the door.
"WTF happened" as my dogs are jumping on him and licking him.. They like Eddy, they think he's cool (somebody has to)..
So we head to his house, grab his gas, and his snips, make a detour to the Pic Qwik and grab some beer (just in case
).. Eddy starts trimming off the little branches with his nice snips and I head inside to fire up my POS Poulan.. Top her up with gas, tighten the chain, and check the bar oil.. Its empty and I have no bar oil.. Hmm.. F'it.. If people can use bar oil on their mills, I can use waylube on my bar... I think??? So here is the question, because you hvae to have a question!!.. Did I do any damage to my POS chainsaw by using waylube instead of bar oil???
That should be the end of the post.. But I'll tell the end of the story... Its not all that exciting.
I didn't mind using the waylube since the local oil place is dumping chevron and blowing out their waylube for $35 a bucket. I've bought 7 of them so far.. I have to be down that way in a few weeks, and if they have any left, I'll buy another 3 buckets for $115 even... Taxes and everything.
Chainsaw fires up real nice.. Go out, cut a bunch of stuff, and shut it off.... Clear a bunch of stuff, play a game on my phone for a few, and the damn chainsaw won't fire up.. Spark, fuel, won't run, even on starting fluid.. I call my cleaning guy, since he's the only one that has really used it the past few years and he said, "Yeah, she's a bitch, fires and runs, does great, won't start again, let it sit for a day, fires right up"..
Shit.. So Eddy's friend is out there yacking at Eddy... And helping him a little, he's older, probably in his 70's... Doesn't have great english, nice guy, recently lost his wife... And he offers to go up the street and get another one of their friends, who actually burns fire wood (and there isn't a lot of free wood in southern New Mexico). and has a chainsaw...
So now we have a 60 year old head trauma.. A 70 year old retired guy that isn't fluent in english and an 80 something year old that understands enough english, but won't speak it. And a chainsaw with a dull chain that runs...
GOOD TIMES!!! We were having fun, it was a holiday, so F'it.
I know enough about chainsaws and trees that you cut from the side that is going to spread.. Apparently, at that point, I was the only person in Hatch that knew that... I actually went inside and got my car jack, and we had to use it more than once..
I won't mention the time where the saw was stuck, and they cut the only leg of the tree that was keeping it from falling over sideways, or the fact that I was in the middle of the mess, pushing to try and get the saw out, and once it came out, they kept cutting, and the whole tree rolled and I tweaked the shit out of my knee.. It didn't feel good, it feels OK now, but I'm a little scared of what its going to feel like in the morning..
And then Pauly.. Pauly lives up the street and occasionally at his Mother's house down the street.. (Hatch is SMALL, 1700 people, everybody knows EVERYBODY).. Pauly pulls up.. Pauly cuts trees for a living, Pauly doesn't work cheap which is why I didn't go and find him at first, but I've helped him out a few times recently..
Pauly sees the tree and zips his truck around in a second.. And says.. Need some help? And I say as long as it doesn't cost me much.. And he says don't worry about it, I'll tear this thing apart in no-time.. So he grabs the POS that actually ran and starts cutting, for about 30 seconds.. And then goes to his truck, which really wasn't a truck. It was POS Mitsubishi SUV, with aluminum riveted to the side, and pulls out a really nice chainsaw.. After he crawled through the inside to open the hatch.
A Stihl. Somewhere between a 32 and a 36 inch bar, Big F'r... One pull.. **Vroom**.. He busted that tree up like he had a light saber.. It was beautiful.. Nice sharp chain, and he KNEW which way things were going to fall, and he only got stuck up once, and it didn't require a car jack to fix..
Pauly left, and we loaded it all up and headed up the road to dump it all off. Eddy's friends truck was full, and my truck was damn near close to the bump stops..
Crisis averted, and it was a holiday, so who cares that I wasted the day.. This is all I have left to deal with, and its not light.. The trash truck can get in to grab the dumpster tomorrow and mail lady can get to the mail box.. F'it.. Its Beer:30...
